Course Chairs
Jennifer J.L. Brun — Harris & Brun, Vancouver
Lyle G. Harris, QC — Harris & Brun, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Jennifer J.L. Brun joined Harris & Brun in February 2016, after practicing for eight years with a mid-size Vancouver law firm. Her practice focuses on insurance litigation with an emphasis on the defence of healthcare professionals, health authorities, educational institutions, municipalities, motorists, and businesses in personal injury and property damage claims. Additionally, Jennifer regularly represents healthcare professionals before regulatory bodies and in dealing with private legal matters. Her practice also includes occupiers’ liability, product liability, property damage, and subrogation matters. Prior to being called to the BC bar, Jennifer joined Guild Yule LLP in 2007 and completed a judicial law clerkship at the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Nationally, Jennifer was elected as an executive member of the Young Lawyers – Canadian Bar Association (YL-CBA) from 2010-2014, serving as President from 2012-2013. The YL-CBA has over 18,000 members who are under the age of 40 or less than ten years’ call to the Bar. In 2015, Jennifer completed her LLM at Osgoode Hall Law School, specializing in civil litigation and dispute resolution.
Lyle G. Harris, QC is a partner at his firm Harris & Brun, Vancouver. He was called to the BC bar in 1976, and has regularly acted for plaintiffs and defendants, as well as insurance companies, in personal injury, and insurance cases since that time. He has conducted over 100 trials and appeals in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. In 2000 – 2001, Lyle was compensation counsel for Thomas Sophonow in the Manitoba Commission of Inquiry (before Peter deC. Cory, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) into Mr. Sophonow’s 1982 wrongful murder conviction. The inquiry ultimately recommended compensation for Mr. Sophonow in the amount of $2.66 million dollars.
Lyle's well-known book, Discovery Practice in British Columbia, was published by The CLE Society of BC in the summer of 1999, and is updated annually. He has been a frequent contributor at seminars offered by CLEBC, Canadian Defence Lawyers, and the Trial Lawyers Association of BC. Lyle was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2009.
Faculty
The Honourable Mr. Justice Paul W. Walker — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Master Grant C. Taylor — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Michelle Adams — Harper Grey LLP, Vancouver
Jennifer J.L. Brun — Harris & Brun, Vancouver
Robert C. Brun, QC — Harris & Brun, Vancouver
Karen F. Douglas — Harper Grey LLP, Vancouver
James A. Doyle — Guild Yule LLP, Vancouver
Michael L. Elliott — Jarvis McGee Rice LLP, Vancouver
Lyle G. Harris, QC — Harris & Brun, Vancouver
John A. Hemmerling — Hemmerling & Associates, Kelowna
Ross McLarty — McLarty Wolf, Vancouver
Jim McNeney, QC — McNeney & McNeney, Vancouver
Albert M. Roos, QC — Sugden, McFee & Roos LLP, Vancouver
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